WiDS Worldwide 2021 Opening Session

The WiDS opening session will take place on March 8th, 2021. 
​All times listed below are Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
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​March 8 GMT

Segment

Speakers, Panelists, and Presenters

1:00 - 1:05 am

Opening Video

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1:05 - 1:10 am

WiDS ​​Welcome

​WiDS Co-Directors: Margot Gerritsen, Karen Matthys, and Judy Logan, ​Stanford University

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1:10 - 1:21 am

Opening Address: To Your Health

Suzanne Weekes, Executive Director, SIAM and Professor at WPI 

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​1:21 - 1:52 am

Fireside Chat with Nobel Laureate Andrea Ghez

Andrea Ghez, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA

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1:52 - 2:24 am

Technical Vision Talks

 

​     1:53 - 2:08 am

The joys and perils of leveraging mechanistic models in health ML: from Type 1 diabetes to COVID-19​ 

Emily Fox, Distinguished Engineer, Apple, and Professor, University of Washington

     2:09 - 2:24 am

​What does it mean to have a robust algorithm? Looking through the lenses of point-set registration. 

Cindy Orozco Bohorquez, Ph.D. Candidate, Stanford University

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2:24 - 2:29 am

WiDS Datathon, ​Winners Announced

Meredith Lee and Sharada Kalanidhi, WiDS Datathon Co-Chairs

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2:29 - 2:59 am

Panel Discussion:
The Democratization of Data

Moderator: Margot Gerritsen, Professor and WiDS Co-Director, Stanford University
Panelists:

• Zhamak Dehghani, Director of Next Tech Incubation, Thoughtworks
  
• ​Mary Gray, Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft and Faculty Associate, Harvard University's Berkman Klein of Internet and Society​
• Amanda Obidike, Executive Director,  STEMi Makers Africa
  

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2:59- 3:00 am

Closing

Margot Gerritsen, Professor, WiDS Co-Director, Stanford University

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